--- title: The Rooster vs. the Logo: A Judgment Call to Crow About description: Behold: the only cover among the thousands published by LIFE magazine that did not feature the famous red-and-white logo. canonical: https://time.com/3491279/the-rooster-vs-the-logo-a-judgment-call-to-crow-about/ author: Ben Cosgrove article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-10T17:35:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:07:27.976Z og:title: The Rooster vs. the Logo: A Judgment Call to Crow About og:description: Behold: the only cover among the thousands published by LIFE magazine that did not feature the famous red-and-white logo. og:url: https://time.com/3491279/the-rooster-vs-the-logo-a-judgment-call-to-crow-about/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc1872c6ff2420856/69876018e20a87e3e1a8262e/life-rooster-01.jpg?branch=production&width=743&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 743 og:image:height: 418 og:image:alt: LIFE magazine, April 26, 1937. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Rooster vs. the Logo: A Judgment Call to Crow About twitter:description: Behold: the only cover among the thousands published by LIFE magazine that did not feature the famous red-and-white logo. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc1872c6ff2420856/69876018e20a87e3e1a8262e/life-rooster-01.jpg?branch=production&width=743&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Rooster vs. the Logo: A Judgment Call to Crow About > Sponsored content. 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And so—behold: the only cover among the thousands published by the venerable weekly, across five decades, that did not feature the red-and-white LIFE logo in the upper left-hand corner. In a brief note on the issue’s contents page, the editors provided a memorable reason for excluding the logo: “LIFE’s title,” they wrote, “is not boldly superimposed on this week’s cover because that would have spoiled the composition” of photographer Torkel Korling’s portrait of the white leghorn. The full story of the logo’s exclusion, meanwhile, can be found in a letter from a retired Time & Life employee named Al Zingaro that ran in the Jan. 5, 1987, issue of an in-house Time Inc. newsletter, _F.Y.I._: --- > “” --- Granted, this was still fairly early in LIFE’s existence: in April 1937, Luce’s magazine had been around for less than two years. Nevertheless, there’s something to be admired about a publisher who would forgo, even temporarily, his magazine’s distinctive logo simply because he felt it would impinge on the integrity of a photograph . . . of a rooster. Nicely played, Mr. Luce. Nicely played, indeed. [\[MORE: “When Cover Lines Collide: Mixed Messages From LIFE Magazine”\]](http://life.time.com/culture/when-cover-lines-collide-mixed-messages-from-life-magazine/#1) [\[MORE: “_Walter Mitty_ and the LIFE Magazine Covers That Never Were”\]](http://life.time.com/culture/walter-mitty-life-magazine-covers-that-never-were/#1) _Ben Cosgrove is the Editor of LIFE.com_  LIFE magazine, April 26, 1937. 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